by Laura Rote | Mar 10, 2021 | News
Five people recently said goodbye to their less than ideal work from home conditions—from hunching over the kitchen bar to sitting at an uninspiring plastic folding table to having their knees pressed against a dresser-turned-workstation. The “Step Up Your Setup”... 
by Laura Rote | Feb 19, 2021 | Products
Brown Jordan has a legacy dating back to 1945, but the team is constantly pushing forward and evolving. That includes working with new materials and designers who think outside the box. For the H Collection, Brown Jordan collaborated with award-winning industrial... 
by Laura Rote | Jan 20, 2021 | Products
Mark Grattan is the cofounder and creative director at Mexico City furniture design studio VIDIVIXI. The Ohio native moved from New York City to Mexico City in 2016 when he met Adam Caplowe, originally from London, at a friend’s birthday party, and they started their... 
by Laura Rote | Jan 14, 2021 | Products
Agam Darshi is an award-winning actress, writer, director, and producer. Born in England and raised all over Canada, she currently lives in LA. You can catch her in a lead role in Funny Boy, based on Shyam Selvadurai’s best-selling novel, on Netflix. As an activist... 
by Laura Rote | Jan 14, 2021 | Products
Al Coronel has been a victim, hero, salsa dancer, and video game character—some in real life and on-screen. In reality he’s an actor, veteran (eight years as a Marine), and world-recognized salsa dancer. The LA native landed his first film role in Johnny Depp’s Blow... 
by Laura Rote | Jan 12, 2021 | Products
Elle Lorraine stars in Bad Hair, a 2020 Hulu original that debuted in October 2020 to rave reviews. This horror satire set in 1989 follows an ambitious young woman who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. But her career... 
by Laura Rote | Jan 5, 2021 | Design
Touré is almost always writing—for his Touré Show podcast or working on his new book, an oral history of Prince, or in the midst of a movie script or TV show. He was quite literally working on all of these projects when I spoke with him in November. “Writing is a... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 31, 2020 | Design
Part house, part art gallery. That’s the premise behind JARtB House, architect Billy Kavellaris’ family home on a tree-lined street with an eclectic mix of housing typologies in Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 2020, JARtB House is an acronym for all the members of... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 30, 2020 | Design
Xiaopeng Yuan spends his days living and working in Shanghai, splitting much of his time between taking photos and importing books. The 33-year-old is the cofounder of Same Paper, a self-publishing book and photography studio that started as a blog to share Xiaopeng... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 24, 2020 | Design
“It was inspired by my parents’ passion for finding and collecting minerals,” says graphic designer Élise Rigollet of her latest work—a 60-page Risograph-printed zine called Rockie. Élise fell in love with the Risograph—essentially a stencil duplicator that’s a cross... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 24, 2020 | Products
Welcome to the end of the road. THE END BLACK from Gufram laughs in the face of endings as the most recent edition of the ironic epitaph created in 2014 by Italian artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. THE END was designed to establish the “end” of the... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 23, 2020 | Design
Cam Hicks was in his early 20s when he left his corporate IT job in the DC area to move to New York City and chase his dream of being a creative director and photographer. He documents his first four years working in NYC in For the Porch, his debut photo book, where... 